C H A P T E R  9

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Advanced SSIS

We just completed an extensive tour of SSIS, including most all of the design surfaces in BIDS. What else could we possibly have to cover in the SSIS area? Actually there is still a great deal more to learn. The focus of this chapter is on using BIDS to make your packages even more useful by adding or using features that will improve your ability to reuse, deploy, and debug them. Also, we'll look at error handling and some new SSIS features.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding package execution—viewers and BIDS
  • Debugging—breakpoints, watch windows, and more
  • Logging—new log providers ...

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